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Tanium

Tanium is a unified endpoint management and security platform that provides real-time visibility and control across all endpoints. It offers a suite of APIs including a GraphQL-based API Gateway and platform REST APIs for integrating with endpoint management, security, compliance, and threat response capabilities.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Tanium the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 22 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Tanium scores 65.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 65.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Tanium

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Tanium. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 22

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tanium API Gateway

The Tanium API Gateway is a GraphQL interface for querying data and taking action in Tanium. It is the preferred method for integrating with Tanium, supporting asset queries, en...

Tanium Actions API

Deploy and manage actions on endpoints

Tanium Alerts API

Manage threat alerts

Tanium Authentication API

Session and token management

Tanium Connections API

Manage data delivery connections

Tanium Destinations API

Manage connection destinations

Tanium Events API

Retrieve Recorder events from endpoints

Tanium Evidence API

Collect and manage investigation evidence

Tanium File Downloads API

Download and manage files from endpoints

Tanium File Operations API

Browse and manage files on connected endpoints

Tanium Groups API

Manage computer and action groups

Tanium Intel Documents API

Manage threat intelligence documents

Tanium Labels API

Manage classification labels for intel documents

Tanium Packages API

Manage deployment packages

Tanium Processes API

Inspect endpoint processes and process trees

Tanium Questions API

Ask and retrieve questions from endpoints

Tanium Saved Questions API

Manage saved questions

Tanium Schedules API

Manage connection schedules

Tanium Sensors API

Manage endpoint sensors

Tanium Snapshots API

Capture and manage endpoint memory snapshots

Tanium Sources API

Manage connection data sources

Tanium Status API

Connect service status and logs

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Postman Collections 3

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Tanium Connect API

OPEN COLLECTION

Tanium Platform REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 7

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Tanium Ask A Question And Get Results

Parse question text, ask it across endpoints, poll until answered, then read the result data.

ARAZZO

Tanium Connect Run A Connection On Demand

Confirm a Connect connection by id, then trigger an immediate on-demand execution.

ARAZZO

Tanium Deploy A Package As An Action

Resolve a package, action group, and target computer group by name, then create and execute the action.

ARAZZO

Tanium Threat Response Live Connection And Snapshot

Open a live connection to an endpoint, poll until connected, then capture a snapshot for offline analysis.

ARAZZO

Tanium Run A Saved Question By Name

Resolve a saved question by name, then read its latest endpoint result data.

ARAZZO

Tanium Ask A Sensor Question And Get Results

Resolve a sensor by name, ask a question that selects it, poll until answered, then read the result data.

ARAZZO

Tanium Ask A Question Scoped To A Computer Group

Resolve a computer group by name, ask a question scoped to it, then read the result data.

ARAZZO

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Tanium GraphQL API

The Tanium API Gateway is a GraphQL interface for querying data and taking action in Tanium. It is the preferred method for integrating with Tanium, supporting asset queries, en...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Tanium Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tanium Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Tanium Context

3 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Tanium API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Tanium API Rules

8 rules · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 7

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Tanium Action

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Threat Alert

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Connect Connection

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Endpoint

21 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Package

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Question

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tanium Sensor

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Tanium Action Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Tanium Endpoint Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Tanium Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tanium Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tanium Agentic Access

70 operations · 27 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

70 operations · 27 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Tanium — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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